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Mike

15th of Mar, 2011 by User671362

What ever became of Mike "Zappy" Zapolin the famous Internet Warrior? He's gone! I purchased "Zappy's" book, "Internet Warrior" written with Alys R. Yablon in 2009. The subject of the book was How to buy & sell domain names on the Internet. After reading the book, I paid to join Mr. Zapolin's "Internet Warrior" members group to learn in detail how to value, buy and sell domain names for profit. Initially, there was someone to answer technical questions not covered in the book or on the website.
Shortly thereafter however (I'd say approx 45 days), no one answered the customer support number. After days of retrying, a man finally answered the phone. Although he knew who Mike "Zappy" Zapolin was, he had no idea where he was. He also didn't know anything about the abandonment of the Internet Warrior website (www.internetwarrior.com). After grilling this gentleman for a while he told me the Internet Warrior Customer Support number actually rings into a distribution warehouse for a Pharmaceutical Company. He further explained he worked for the warehouse and was paid to answer the Internet Warrior Support number. When I asked him for Mr. Zapolon's contact info he gave me a disconnected number. When I called him back (took many calls to get him to answer again) he told me all he could do was pass my contact information on to Mr. Zapolin and Mr. Zapolin would contact me. I thought this bizarre since earlier he had said he did not know anything about Mr. Zapolin's whereabouts. NEVER did get that call from "Zappy" Next I tracked "Zappy" through Google. I actually found him and befriended him on both Facebook & LinkedIn. I messaged him and asked what happened to the website and for my money back. Again, he NEVER replied! I gave up until today when I saw his name pop up on the Internet. Now "Zappy" has a company named Internet Real Estate Group (www.internetrealestate.com). He is listed as the CEO of this company on the website. The address of "Zappy's" new company is: 188 Needham Street, Suite 255, Newton, MA 02464.
Mr. Zapolin did not have the professionalism to respond to me after disappearing with my "hard earned" money. I wonder if there are any others out there he ripped off? Please understand the money in question here is not life altering. However it is the principal of it all. It doesn't take much for a guy to make allot of money if he can find a thousand suckers. "Zappy" is a smart marketer with lots of testimonials and pictures of him surrounded by celebrities and politicians. My advice is if you run across him or anything he has to sell be very wary!

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